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python: skip setup.py 'import check' when cross-compiling
authorTom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Sat, 5 Nov 2011 01:25:03 +0000 (20:25 -0500)
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 8 Nov 2011 21:44:23 +0000 (21:44 +0000)
commit25fae81538a92e15eab3fc169ebce44505f67839
treeb2850b3d5693e4aa1aee87b3a7eed61f8c07e78d
parent5be9785f344ec4d7580f7ec68e29dba9fceb0a0a
python: skip setup.py 'import check' when cross-compiling

build_extension() in setup.py, as part of the build process, does an
'import check' on the built extension.  The import check in turn
dlopen()'s the shared library associated with the extension, which
isn't something that makes sense if that library was cross-compiled
for a different architecture.

This was noticed with an x86_64 target that was compiled with avx
support, because it caused 'illegal instruction' exceptions:

| /bin/sh: line 1: 14575 Illegal instruction ... -E ./setup.py -q build

For other target architectures, it doesn't necessarily cause illegal
instruction exceptions, but still fails.  For example, on arm, the
failure pathway causes this warning:

*** WARNING: renaming "cmath" since importing it failed: .../cmath.so:
    wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

This patch to setup.py and the associated recipe changes allow the
whole 'import check' logic to be skipped when cross-compiling.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
meta/recipes-devtools/python/python/setup_py_skip_cross_import_check.patch [new file with mode: 0644]
meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.2.bb